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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: News Amiga stats
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Date: 5 Jan 90 18:49:04 GMT
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monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:

}>Reply-To: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS)
}>
}>    Here are some interesting figures for news in the last month :-
}>
}>	comp.sys.amiga is   34th in popularity
}>			    4th in volume
}>			    doesn't rank in crossposting
}>
}>
}    How are these figures compliled? I don't understand how a group can be 4th
}in volume and 34th in popularity. It seems that if a group has a lot of volume
}it must be popular.

"popularity" means "how many people read it".  That kind of disparity means
either that the postings tend to be longer [I can't remember if 'volume' is
measured in kbytes or postings]; or that the fewer people just post more per
person.

  /Bernie\